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Ranking the top 10 sports events Aug. 21-27 you won’t want to miss: NO. 1: BOXING: FLOYD MAYWEATHER JR. vs. CONOR McGREGOR Details/TV: At T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Saturday, 6 p.m., pay-per-view (suggested price: $99.95) It’s the latest piece of non-circumstantial evidence that sports has eclipsed sanity, with or without a special pair of $100 glasses to watch it sear our retinas. All the time, space, ink, verbiage, video, expectations and deviations dedicated to this Battlestar Galactica presentation can’t possibly match what the crash-and-bu outcome will surely be, according to the expe...

The Lakers have remained economical throughout free agency, choosing less grandiose moves designed to strengthen their foundation instead of chasing the kind of transactions that could compromise long-term investments or precious salary-cap space for next summer. After agreeing to a one-year, $18 mi...

PLAYA VISTA >> After 18 years spent toiling as Staples Center’s third tenant, fighting for prime game days and times, and playing, until Doc Rivers took over, under the shadow of all those Lakers championship baers, the Clippers on Thursday officially took the first cautious steps to strikin...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Olympic officials have given up on cleaning the green-tinged water in one of the pools at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Center, so they’ll drain it and transfer nearly 1 million gallons of clear water from a nearby practice pool in time for the start of synchronized swimming. Mario Andrada, a spokesman for Rio 2016, said the “radical measure” was necessary to ensure clear water for both judges and competitors during an event that requires athletes to spend much of their time underwater. He stressed again that the kale-colored water posed no risk to the health of the athletes. An adjacent, smaller pool will continue to be used for the diving competition, even though it rema...

UCLA has a three-headed monster at ruing back, but in offensive coordinator Keedy Polamalu’s perfect world, it’ll be down to one by the season opener. “I would like to have one guy at the top of the list,” Polamalu said. “Then the other guys will get their playing time. We’re going to play all those backs. And they know that and that’s why they prepare that way.” Soso Jamabo, Bolu Olorunfunmi and Nate Starks are vying for Paul Perkins’ now-vacant starting spot in the backfield. Under Polamalu, who also coaches the ruing backs, the trio has adopted “that Paul Perkins work ethic, mentality (and) competitiveness.” “Coach KP preaches that it’s a family,” Jamabo said. “We’re all a family, we’re ...

LONDON >> With just over two weeks until the opening ceremony, Russia still doesn’t know whether its athletes — all or even some — will be competing in the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. It may all come down to the lawyers. While the IOC decided Tuesday to ban from the Rio Games all Russian Sports Ministry officials and other administrators implicated in allegations of a state-run doping program, it delayed a ruling on whether to take the unprecedented step of barring the entire Russian Olympic team. The Inteational Olympic Committee said it “will explore the legal options with regard to a collective ban of all Russian athletes for the Olympic Games 2016 versus the rights to individual j...

LONDON >> With just over two weeks until the opening ceremony, Russia still doesn’t know whether its athletes — all or even some — will be competing in the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. It may all come down to the lawyers. While the IOC decided Tuesday to ban from the Rio Games all Russian Sports Ministry officials and other administrators implicated in allegations of a state-run doping program, it delayed a ruling on whether to take the unprecedented step of barring the entire Russian Olympic team. The Inteational Olympic Committee said it “will explore the legal options with regard to a collective ban of all Russian athletes for the Olympic Games 2016 versus the rights to individual j...